Kelly Chadwick, owner of Spokane arborist service Spirit Pruners, has bought a former mechanic-shop building and single-family residence with 3,600 square feet of combined space at 2425 W. Broadway, where Chadwick plans to move the business and reside.

“I wanted a building that had character and I could revitalize,” Chadwick says. “It will be my office, and I plan to move into the home behind it.”

He says the 5-year-old business will move from a home base in the Emerson Garfield Neighborhood, near Corbin Park.

“Business has grown, and I needed a professional location for an office, tools, and a workshop,” Chadwick says.

Spirit Pruners’ new location is in the West Central neighborhood, just over a block north of the Kendall Yards development.

“I feel the property can be transformed and be a powerful catalyst for that section of Broadway,” Chadwick says.

The property is planted with a variety of trees and bushes, including an apricot tree, a black locust tree, a hawthorn tree, a crabapple tree, and two rose bushes, all in need of some care through which Spirit Pruners can demonstrate its work, he says.

“We’ve started pruning,” he says. “That’s what we do as arborists.”

Spirit Pruners has four employees and works regularly with four subcontractors, he says.

Most of Spirit Pruners’ work is for residential customers, although Chadwick says he also has some commercial customers, including some landscape architects.

“We’re not so much about demographics as about quality of work,” he says.

Spokane commercial broker Jim Orcutt, of NAI Black, negotiated the real estate transaction.

Education

Valley Christian School, a private K-12 school, has bought for $4.4 million a 155,700-square-foot school complex, a portion of which it currently occupies, on a 24-acre parcel of land at the original site of University High School, at 10212 E. Ninth. Mike Livingston, of Kiemle & Hagood Co., and Mark McLees, of NAI Black, brokered the transaction.

Office & Retail

Roen Associates Inc., a Spokane-based engineering and project-consulting company, has leased a 3,400-square-foot, two-story office building at 121 S. Wall and has moved there from smaller quarters at 1526½ W. Riverside. Vic Overholser, of SDS Realty Inc., and Joe Dinnison, of John L. Scott Real Estate, handled the transaction.

Wireless Communications Inc., of Spokane, which does business as Cellular Plus, a telecommunications dealer, has leased 2,700 square feet of space for a new retail outlet in a multitenant building at 914 E. Mission. Casey Brazil and Colin Conway, both of Kiemle & Hagood Co., handled the transaction.

Investment

MT Futures LLC, of Spokane, has bought as an investment a two-story, 10,400-square-foot office-retail building at 1717 W. Sixth for $1.2 million. Matthew Byrd, of SVN Cornerstone, handled the transaction.

7810 Market LLC, of Seattle, has bought as an investment a 7,500-square-foot multitenant office-warehouse building at 7826 N. Market. Jim Orcutt, of NAI Black, and Steve Peterson, of Coldwell Banker Tomlinson North, negotiated the transaction.